Quotes About Perception

Un po' di pioggia non ha mai fatto male a nessuno, disse Mario. La pioggia fa male a tutti, disse Carlos. Può anche uccidere. Ne aveva già uccisi molti.

Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.

Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can see that unknowingly I joined them in laughing at myself. That hurts the most.

How can I make him understand that he did not create me? He makes the same mistake as the others when they look at a feeble-minded person and laugh because they don't understand there are human feelings involved.

Actors are good liars, writers are good liars with good memories.

Aristotle famously said, "The more you know, the more you know you don't know

sixteenth-century French philosopher Michel de Montaigne. He once quipped, "My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

George Berkeley makes the case that all our knowledge of the world comes to us through our senses, so in the end all we've really got is this sense data inside our heads. We cannot claim that is a chair out there, only that we have some chair sense data in our minds. So it is impossible to claim that the chair is anything more than a bunch of sensory experiences that we cobble together in our minds and call a "chair.

Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system." —WILLIAM JAMES, AMERICAN PHILOSOPHER

Experiences that we remember intrusively, despite desperately wanting to banish them from our minds, are closely linked to, and sometimes threaten, our perceptions of who we are and who we would like to be.

Thus, the "memories" that people reported contained little information about the event they were trying to recall (the speaker's tone of voice) but were greatly influenced by the properties of the retrieval cue that we gave them (the positive or negative facial expression).

emotional information attracts attention quickly and automatically

When you fully appreciate time, ?everything can be just like the first time you saw or experienced it. By appreciating time for what it is, by understanding how our view of it is distorted by our own circumstance, history, and perception, we can overcome our own innate limitations.

Pleasure and pain are merely states of mind, rather than situations. Every situation is neutral.

A belief is not a fact; it is simply what we believe.

The mind work sometimes in life as it does in a dream. It makes substitutions...

The stranger is often a person who can see and understand the context much better than a person who has lived there for a thousand years

Two guys walk into a bar. You'd think one of them would have seen it.

To see is to experience the world as it is, to remember is to experience the world as it was, but to imagine-ah, to imagine is to experience the world as it isn't and has never been, but as it might be. The greatest achievement of the human brain is its ability to imagine objects and episodes that do not exist in the realm of the real, and it is this ability that allows us to think about the future.

The bottom line is this: the brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what the eye sees, but in return the eye has agreed to look for what the brain wants.

Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist's hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed.

We use our eyes to look into space and our imaginations to look into time.

Because we tend to remember the best of times and the worst of times instead of the most likely of times, the wealth of experience that young people admire does not always pay clear dividends.